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Scotland’s road to IndyRef2, between two Unions
No full textNicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland, has announced a second independence referendum will be held on 19 October 2023. Given the UK government’s refusal to negotiate a new independence referendum, the call for this referendum, popularly known as IndyRef2, is shrouded in great uncertainty. The aim of this article is to assess the chances of this second Scottish independence referendum finally taking place. To do so, it will begin by taking a historical overview of the different referendums that have been held in this territory, analysing their consequences and how their given results have influenced the strategies of certain political parties (specifically, the Scottish National Party). Subsequently, the arguments for and against holding a second independence referendum for Scotland will be presented, and the article will finish by assessing the real possibilities of IndyRef2 being held on the date planned by the Scottish authorities. This investigation concludes by anticipating that, over the next few years, the Scottish territorial question will continue to be a key element in the internal politics of the United Kingdom.Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister de Escocia, ha anunciado la celebración de un segundo referéndum de independencia para Escocia el 19 de octubre de 2023. Dada la negativa del Gobierno del Reino Unido a negociar una nueva consulta de independencia, la convocatoria de este referéndum, conocido popularmente como IndyRef2, está envuelta en una gran incertidumbre. Este artículo tiene por objetivo evaluar las posibilidades de que este segundo referéndum de independencia de Escocia pueda llevarse a cabo. Para ello, se comenzará realizando un recorrido histórico por los distintos referéndums que se han celebrado en este territorio, analizando sus consecuencias y cómo sus resultados han influido en las estrategias de determinados partidos políticos (especialmente en el Partido Nacionalista Escocés). Posteriormente, se expondrán los argumentos a favor y en contra de la realización de un segundo referéndum de independencia para Escocia, para finalizar el texto valorando las posibilidades reales de que el IndyRef2 se celebre en la fecha prevista por las autoridades escocesas. El escrito concluye anticipando que, durante los próximos años, la cuestión territorial escocesa continuará siendo un elemento clave en la política interior del Reino Unido
Scotland; secesionism or europeism?
No full textCon apenas veinte años de recorrido, el Parlamento escocés acaba de empezar su sexta legislatura. El 6 de mayo de 2021 se celebraron las últimas elecciones para elegir a los representantes de esta joven institución. En este texto, prestando especial atención a la última convocatoria electoral, se pretende realizar un análisis histórico y descriptivo en el que se examinará el sistema electoral, el sistema de partidos, los resultados electorales y el modelo de selección de candidatos para el puesto de First Minister en Escocia. Además, este escrito también ofrece una contextualización de algunos de los principales debates que acaparan la actualidad política de los escoceses.The Scottish Parliament, with barely over twenty years of history, has just begun its sixth legislature. On the 6th of May 2021, last elections were held to elect the representatives of this young institution. The aim of this text, paying special attention to the last election, is to carry out a historical and descriptive analysis in which the electoral system, the party system, the electoral results, and the model of selection of the First Minister of Scotland are studied. In addition, this paper also offers a contextualization of some of the main debates that are currently dominating Scottish politics
Percepción de la calidad de vida en niños y adolescentes y su relación con el rendimiento académico
No full textStrategic responses to sustainability reporting regulation and multiple stakeholder demands: an analysis of the Spanish EU non-financial reporting directive transposition
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This paper aims to study companies’ strategic responses to regulative institutional pressures on sustainability reporting. Particularly, it investigates the role of multiple stakeholder demands in shaping corporate responses to Law 11/2018 that transposes the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive in Spain
Advertising Portrait Photography as a Documentary Exercise in Digital Connectivity. Kito Muñoz and Intermediality on Instagram
No full textLa democratización tecnológica, los nuevos dispositivos y el paradigma digital han desbancado los medios de comunicación tradicionales para adaptarse a unas redes sociales donde todo individuo y su imagen se convierten en retratos de un «yo» publicitario. El presente estudio pretende arrojar luz sobre el proceso del retrato condicionado por este panorama en aquellos medios digitales que se apoderan de la imagen, como es el caso de Instagram, teniendo en cuenta la creación de uno de los fotógrafos con más proyección en el panorama actual. De este modo, se analizarán los retratos de Kito Muñoz, de su método y el de sus coetáneos, para cuestionar su proceso creativo, en tanto que su naturaleza puede ser más documental que publicitaria.Photographic creation depends on pictures that exist in the inmediacy of digital media and its connectivity. New devices and digital paradigm have overcome traditional print media in order to adapt themselves to SMPs (Social Media Platforms), where every picture becomes a self-portrait of themselves. This study focuses on the portrait process conditioned by that type of construction, taking into account pictures from Kito Muñoz on Instagram -made for himself or for any brand-. Kito's photography on the Net is analyzed to know whether its objective is to achieve a documentary or advertising purpose
Psychometric properties of the academic procrastination scale in Spanish university students
No full textProcrastination in academic activities is common amongst university students, and has negative consequences for their personal as well as academic development. As a result, there is a need for valid –yet at the same time brief and clear-cut– measurement tools that enable the specific procrastinating behaviour of university students to be measured. This work explores in depth the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Academic Procrastination Scale, a widely used brief tool in secondary and higher education in the Spanish speaking world. The scale was applied to a total of 1734 university students, together with the Procrastination Assessment Scale-Students (PASS), the Unintentional Procrastination Scale (UPS) and the Active Procrastination Scale (APS). Factor analyses indicate the best fit is a structure involving four interrelated factors (task aversion, poor time management, low emotional and motivational self-control, and risk assumption) compared to other proposed models. The model presents factorial invariance between men and women, and adequate convergent validity. We discuss the implications of using this scale in higher education, since differentiating the four factors might help to identify different support measures depending on university student needs.This work was funded by project no. VA088G18 corresponding to subsidies to the Recognized Research Groups of the Public Universities of Castilla y León, Spain (Order of November 20, 2017, BOCYL No. 225, of November 23). and Grant from the “Vicerrectorado de Investigación, transferencia e Innovación de la Universidad de Burgos” to GIR DATAHES No. Y143.GI
A propósito del orden de llamamientos en la sucesión intestada en los bienes de los libertos
No full textTrabajo presentado en VIII Jornadas de Doctorandos de la Universidad de Burgos, abril de 2022, Burgos.Los habitantes de la antigua Roma se dividían en libres y esclavos. A su
vez, los libres se subdividían en “ingenuos”, que eran los libres de nacimiento
y en “libertos”, que eran antiguos esclavos manumitidos. A partir de la manumisión, momento en el que el dueño le otorgaba la libertad, el esclavo era libre
y se convertía en sujeto de relaciones jurídicas. No obstante, el ex esclavo
(liberto) carecía de ascendencia civil, por lo que a los ojos del ordenamiento
jurídico romano no tenía ni agnados ni gentiles. Por el contrario, sí podía tener
descendencia reconocida, lo que supone que podía tener heredes sui.
Haber alcanzado la libertad no significaba que se rompiese su relación
de dependencia con el patrono (antiguo dueño), pues indefectiblemente surgía
el ius patronatus o derecho del patrono sobre el liberto al momento de ser
manumitido. En caso de fallecer intestado el liberto no era posible aplicar el
orden de llamamientos previsto en el ius civile para los ingenui, pues aquél
carecía de ascendientes y parientes colaterales reconocidos, razón por la cual
se producía la delatio al patrono y a sus descendientes por el orden establecido
al efecto; en definitiva, un orden sucesorio particula
Aplicaciones y actividades de innovación docente en geografía: el uso de Google Earth como herramienta de enseñanza
No full textCharacterisation of the Stromal Microenvironment in Lobular Breast Cancer
No full textnvasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) is the second most common histological subtype of breast cancer, and it exhibits a number of clinico-pathological characteristics distinct from the more common invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC). We set out to identify alterations in the tumor microenvironment (TME) of ILC. We used laser-capture microdissection to separate tumor epithelium from stroma in 23 ER+ ILC primary tumors. Gene expression analysis identified 45 genes involved in regulation of the extracellular matrix (ECM) that were enriched in the non-immune stroma of ILC, but not in non-immune stroma from ER+ IDC or normal breast. Of these, 10 were expressed in cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) and were increased in ILC compared to IDC in bulk gene expression datasets, with PAPPA and TIMP2 being associated with better survival in ILC but not IDC. PAPPA, a gene involved in IGF-1 signaling, was the most enriched in the stroma compared to the tumor epithelial compartment in ILC. Analysis of PAPPA- and IGF1-associated genes identified a paracrine signaling pathway, and active PAPP-A was shown to be secreted from primary CAFs. This is the first study to demonstrate molecular differences in the TME between ILC and IDC identifying differences in matrix organization and growth factor signaling pathways.This work was funded by Cancer Research UK (C157/A23219 to LGC; C157/A29279 to E.B.) and the Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre Award (C157/A18075), an Endeavour Scholarship (734/2018/878 to Z.M.) and Programme Grants from Breast Cancer Now as part of Programme Funding to the Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre (S.H. and R.N.). The breast tissue and data bank at McGill University is supported by funding from the Database and Tissue Bank Axis of the Réseau de Recherche en Cancer of the Fonds de Recherche du Québec-Santé and the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation (to M.P.)
Construction Accidents in Spain: Implications for an Aging Workforce
No full textConstruction workers are getting older. In the European Union, the percentage of workers over 50 grew from 24.7% in 2011 to 31.5% in 2018, in Spain from 20.4% to 31.2%. Objective. Identify trends and detailed patterns of accidents of older construction workers compared to other age groups. Data and Method. We analyzed construction accidents in Spain from 2011 to 2018 (N = 455,491). The number of accidents and lost working days (LWD) were broken down by occupation, seniority, company size, temporal variables (weekday, hour), trigger, and body part injured and compared for different age groups. Results. Although older worker had fewer accidents, the consequences of accidents were more serious. Those over 50 years had 84% more lost working days (LWD) than those under 24 years, 48% more than those between 25 and 39 years, and 21% more than those between 40 and 49 years. (1) Occupation: the percentage of accidents grew with age for supervisors, lorry drivers, and bricklayers. (2) Seniority: the least experienced (less than 6 months) and the most experienced (more than 6 years) had the most LWD. (3) Company size: there are 24.5% of accidents in companies of less than four workers. (4) Trigger: older workers suffered more falls, both from height and at the same level. (5) Time: the percentage of accidents in those over 50 was higher on Thursdays and Fridays, in the afternoons from 4 to 7 p.m., and after four hours of work. (6) Injury: this shows the longest absences for shoulder injuries for those over 50 years, with an average of 70 LWD